Speaker: Gwen Shapira
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Co-Founder and CPO @Nile, Previously Engineering Leader @Confluent, PMC Member @Kafka, & Committer Apache Sqoop
Gwen is a co-founder and CPO of Nile (thenile.dev). She has 20+ years of experience working with code and customers to build reliable and scalable data architectures - most recently as the head of Cloud Native Kafka engineering org at Confluent. Gwen is a committer to Apache Kafka, author of “Kafka - the Definitive Guide” and "Hadoop Application Architectures". You can find her speaking at tech conferences or talking data at the SaaS Developer Community.
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Session
When Your Users Are Agents: Lessons from Running Serverless Postgres
Most systems are designed with human users in mind: predictable session lengths, expected traffic spikes, and query patterns shaped by application code. But what happens to your core infrastructure when some of your most active users are autonomous AI agents?
